Joseph horner



@einentartes atmtt @ffice JOSEPH HORN ER, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 67,804, dated July 30, 1867.

IMPROVED BIEDSTEAD.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH HORNER, of NewV Brunswick, in the county of Middlesex, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and improved Windlass Bedstead; and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification ofthe same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvements, by which myinvention may be distinguished from all others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim, and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent.

This invention relates to -a new andmproved mode of securing the sucking-bottom to bedsteads, whereby said bottom may be very readily applied and detached, and, when applied, tightened up with the greatest facility; In the accompanying sheet of drawings- Figure 1 is a side sectional view of my invention taken in the line :v fig. 2.

Figure 2 a plan or top view of the same.

Figure' a detached view of a forked plate used in turning the windlass or cylinder.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

f A represents a bedstcad, which may be constructed in any of the known forms, andB B are two cylinders, which may be of wood, and have their ends fitted in bearings a secured to the inner surfaces of the side rails b of the bedstead, one roller being at the head and the other at the foot of the bedstead, as shown clearly in fig. 1. The cylinder B has a ratchet-wheel` c, on each end of it, and into these wheels pawls d attached to. the side rails b`catch, and on the centre of the cylinder B there is a square, e, to receive a metal wheel, f, the sidescf which are notched or grooved to .receive the prongs of a forked pl'ate, C, at the end of a lever, D, (see iig. 3.) E is the sticking-bottom, one end of which is attached to the cylinder B, and the other end to the cylinder B. This sacking-bottom is stretched perfectly taut, by turning the cylinder B through the medium of the forked plate C and the grooved wheel f. The sucking-bottom E is prevented from contracting laterally under the tension caused by the winding of it upon the cylinder B by bent or hookedrods F, which are driven in or attached to the side rails b 6, and pass through oolong slots t h in the seeking-bottom, the slots t It being suiiciently long to admit of a requisite longitudinal movement ofthe apron without interfering with the bent rodsor hooks.

These bent rods orvhooks perform a very important function, for without them the seeking-bottom would be materially contracted in width while being stretched. Y

The sticking-bottom may be removed at any time by simply throwing back the pawls d from the ratcnets c, so as to relax or slacken the bottom, and then raising the cylinders ont from their bearings'a.

I am aware that windlass-bedsteads, or those having their sucking-bottoms attached to wndlasses, have been previously used, and I therefore do not claim broadly suc-h device, but I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Attaching the front and rear ends of the sucking-bottom E to cylinders B B', which are fitted in bearings a attached to thc side rails 6 of the bedstead, at the head and foot portions thereof, in combination with the grooved wheel f and forked plate O, ratchets c, and pawls d, all arranged and applied substantiallyas shown and described.

I also claim the bent rods or hooks F, attached to the side rails b of lthe bedstead, :md passing through oblong slots, 7i, in the sucking-bottom, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

I further claim the combination of the sticking-bottom, cylinders, pawls, and ratchets, grooved wheeland forked plate, and the bent rods or hooks, all arranged and applied to a bcdstead, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOSEPH. HORNER.

Witnesses:

EDWARD TUNIsoN, J. B. SroCKroN. 

